Some years back, when I worked for an insurance company, we ran some queries against the motor insurance database just for fun. One of the queries we ran effectively asked the question if there was any difference between the accident rate for different coloured cars.
To our surprise there were significant differences between the accident rates for some colours as against others. The cars with the worst accident rates were dark grey, black, dark blue and dark green and those with the lowest accident rate were white, banana yellow, orange, pillar-box red and lime green.
we assumed at the time that this difference was down to the enhanced visibility of the colours with the lower accident rates.
Ever since then, when buying second hand cars, I have always preferred vehicles that are in the “safer” colour range although they are extremely difficult to find. For whatever reason, people seem to prefer buying cars that are dark grey or black or dark blue and those colours dominate the second-hand car market!
@Paulos_the_fog Most cars seem to be some sort of "silver", ie grey. Giving you the worst possible visibility - in usual UK weather you're driving a grey car along a grey road against a grey sky.
So we've tried quite hard to buy non-grey cars. However I'm afraid my current car is grey ("silver"), because the previous (red) one died suddenly and the lead times on buying a non-grey replacement were horrendous.
The colour with the worst accident rate was dark grey, unsurprisingly! Mid grey and silver grey were close behind!
